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Everything you need to know about HAProxy log format

HAProxy is one of today’s fastest and most widely used load balancing solutions. If you’re already using HAProxy or considering using it in your environment, understanding HAProxy logging is essential. Let’s discuss why HAProxy logging is vital to the load balancer implementation, the logging HAProxy offers, and how to manage and configure HAProxy logs to suit your unique needs.

Ubuntu Crash Logs: Find, Fix, and Prevent System Failures

If your system keeps crashing and you have no clue why, Ubuntu’s crash logs might have the answers. Whether you’re running a production server or just trying to keep your personal setup stable, these logs tell you exactly what went wrong. Instead of sifting through endless system logs, Ubuntu gives you focused crash reports—kind of like a security camera that only records when something breaks. Let’s break down where to find these logs and how to make sense of them.

7 Open-Source Log Management Tools that You Can Consider in 2025

Open-source log management tools provide cost-effective, customizable approaches for collecting and analyzing log data. They help teams quickly identify patterns, spot anomalies, and resolve issues. With numerous options available, it's important to understand their strengths and limitations. This article examines the top open-source log management tools in 2025, focusing on their capabilities, performance, and best use cases.

Understanding observability metrics: Types, golden signals, and best practices

Observability metrics provide insights into the performance, behavior, and health of applications, systems, and infrastructure — enabling observability practices, which is how a system’s internal state is understood by examining its data. As organizations continue to collect more and more data, observability metrics are a key telemetry signal for observability.

A Guide to Logging in React Native

Basic console logging is a good starting point for debugging and understanding an app. For larger, more complex apps, it’s helpful to include additional information and persist logs. In this guide, you’ll learn how to create and view logs in React Native and how to create and save custom logs to a file. We’ll focus on JavaScript logs.

Revolutionize Product Development with Feedback-Driven Customer Advisory Boards

In a rapidly evolving business landscape, understanding and responding to customer needs is not just an advantage — it's a necessity. At Splunk, we've taken a bold step by applying a product manager mindset to our Customer Advisory Board (CAB) program, transforming it into a dynamic platform for both customers and our product teams.

Tiered Observability: How To Prioritize and Mature Observability Investments

You may be surprised that delivering observability is a journey and isn’t about observing everything at once — it’s about driving outcomes like proactive detection, faster troubleshooting, and aligning with business priorities. If you’ve followed this series, you’ve already taken steps to.